Postmortem: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths (Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries)
By: Stefan Timmermans
3.77
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
As elected coroners were replaced by medical examiners with scientific training, the American publi…
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1. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
By: Caitlin Doughty
4.22
Format: 254 pages, Paperback
Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty—a twenty-something with a degre… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- death
"Your relationship to mortality is your own."-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
"In spite of my fear of living, I chose not to die."-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
"A girl always remembers the first corpse she shaves."-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
"The fear of death is why we build cathedrals, have children, declare war, and watch cat videos online at three a.m."-Caitlin Doughty, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
2. Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
By: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
3.72
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In her extraordinary bestseller, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses readers in the intricacies of the g… read more
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3. Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician
By: Michelle Williams
4.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
Michelle Williams is young and attractive, with close family ties, a busy social life . . . and an … read more
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4. Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus
By: Monica Murphy , Bill Wasik
4.00
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing, lively history of a fearsome and misunderstood virus that binds man and dog. The mos… read more
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5. From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
By: Caitlin Doughty
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Doughty chronicles [death] practices with ten… read more
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- science
- nonfiction
- sociology
- death
"My next drone folk album will be called "The Cremation Reforms of Octavius B. Frothingham"."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
"What dignity translates to, more often than not, is silence, a forced poise, a rigid formality."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
"All that surrounds us comes from death, every part of every city, and every part of every person."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
"In death, corpses don't hold themselves together. They no longer have to play by the living's rules."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
6. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
By: Mary Roach
4.06
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Beloved, best-selling science writer Mary Roach’s classic, now with a new epilogue. For two tho… read more
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- medical
- biology
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- death
- nonfiction
- science
"There wasn't an anhydrous lacrimal gland in the room..."-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
"You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place."-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
"Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is."-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
"We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget."-Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
7. El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
By: Irene Vallejo
4.26
Format: 452 pages, Paperback
Este es un libro sobre la historia de los libros. Un recorrido por la vida de ese fascinante artefa… read more
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- nonfiction
"Los libros nos convierten en herederos de todos los relatos: los mejores, los peores, los ambiguos, los problemáticos, los de doble filo. Disponer de todos ellos es bueno para pensar, y permite elegi…"-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
"Ler é um ritual que implica gestos, posições, objetos, espaços, materiais, movimentos, modulações de luz. Para imaginarmos como liam os nossos antepassados, precisamos de conhecer, em cada época, ess…"-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
"desde os primeiros séculos da escrita até à idade Média, a norma era ler em voz alta, para si próprio ou para os outros, e os escritores pronunciavam as frases à medida que as escreviam ouvindo assim…"-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo
8. Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies
By: Caitlin Doughty
4.13
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Everyone has questions about death. In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, best-selling author and mortic… read more
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- medical
- medicine
- death
- nonfiction
- science
"That's why all the questions in this book come from 100 percent ethically sourced, free-range, organic children."-Caitlin Doughty, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies
"It’s normal to be curious about death. But as people grow up, they internalize this idea that wondering about death is “morbid"-Caitlin Doughty, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies
"Sometimes death can be violent, sudden, and unbearably sad. But it’s also reality, and reality doesn’t change just because you don’t like it."-Caitlin Doughty, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies
"I'm bringing body back. Returning corpses, but they're not intact. Kids, this is a Justin Timberlake reference. You're fine not knowing who that is."-Caitlin Doughty, Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And other Questions about Dead Bodies
9. Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope
By: Mark Manson
3.68
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the international mega-bestseller The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck comes a co… read more
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- nonfiction
- sociology
"Because the only thing that can ever truly destroy a dream is to have it come true."-Mark Manson, Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope
"Ultimately, we are moved to action only by emotion. That's because action is emotion."-Mark Manson, Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope
"When we deny ourselves the ability to feel pain for a purpose, we deny ourselves the ability to feel any purpose in our life at all."-Mark Manson, Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope
"Ultimately, the most meaningful freedom in your life comes from your commitments, the things in life for which you have chosen to sacrifice."-Mark Manson, Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope
10. The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine
By: Justin McElroy
4.00
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
A compelling, often hilarious and occasionally horrifying exploration of how modern medicine came t… read more
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- medical
- medicine
- nonfiction
- science
11. The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels
By: Pamela Prickett
4.08
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon—the rising number of unclai… read more
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- sociology
- nonfiction
- true crime
- death
12. Soldier of Destiny: Slavery, Secession, and the Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant
By: John Reeves
3.81
Format: 352 pages, ebook
Presenting an original, thought-provoking look at Ulysses S. Grant, Soldier of Destiny evokes the l… read more
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- nonfiction
13. Postmortem: How Medical Examiners Explain Suspicious Deaths (Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries)
By: Stefan Timmermans
3.77
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
As elected coroners were replaced by medical examiners with scientific training, the American publi… read more
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- true crime
- medical
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- medicine
- death
- nonfiction
- crime
- education
- sociology
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